Colonies
Colony known as The Lost Colony
What is Roanoke?
Plant that is sold for profit.
What is cash crop?
Founder of Georgia, he did not want slavery or liquor sold in his colony.
Who was James Olgethorpe?
Colony that was founded by Roger Williams, capital city is Providence, which means accepting other beliefs.
What is Rhode Island?
Document that gives people permission to settle.
What is charter?
Great lookout for Spanish ships, but struggled greatly due to lazy settlers. Swampy water made finding drinking water difficult and was filled with disease from mosquitoes. Experienced a starving time where people fought over food, and even sometimes resorted to cannibalism.
What was Jamestown?
Large farms.
What are plantations?
Founder of Maryland, passed the Toleration Act.
Who was Lord Baltimore?
In 1636 the minister Thomas Hooker led his congregation from Massachusetts to come here. With the help of leaders from other towns, Hooker worked out a plan of government.
What is Connecticut?
People who wanted to change the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
Experienced "starving time" and around half of the population died by their first spring. Squato and friendly Native Americans helped them by teaching them how to survive in their new location. They shared their harvest with Natives in a large festival.
What is Plymouth?
Plant that produces a blue dye, one of the cash crops of the south.
What is indigo?
Founder of Plymouth, was their leader for the first year. One of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
Who was John Carver?
Indigo was introduced in this colony. Farmers grew crops on large plantations which helped them become rich, typically using African slave labor.
What is South Carolina?
Company that collects money from investors to sponsor voyages.
What is joint-stock company?
Home of Jamestown and the first successful English colony. Struggled initially because of swampy land and malaria from mosquitoes. Had a representative form of government.
What is Virginia?
People who left the Church of England.
Who were separatists?
Man who was the strong leader of Jamestown, had the motto "work or starve" that helped the gentlemen become motivated to work.
Who was John Smith?
Colony that was founded by John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges from a fishing grant, one of the royal colonies.
What is New Hampshire?
Acceptance of others.
What is toleration?
Established to help the poor people of London who could not be released from jail unless they paid their debt. Also acted as a buffer zone between the English colonies and Spanish Florida. Did not allow the use of slavery or selling liquor. Named after King George II.
What is Georgia?
Plan of government, usually written.
What is the constitution?
Woman who was asked to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony because she challenged Puritan beliefs on women's rights and religious toleration, eventually settled in Rhode Island.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
Home of the Quakers, distributed pamphlets telling people about the land and beauty of this colony, treated Native Americans fairly by paying them for their land, and encouraged religious toleration.
What is Pennsylvania?
Agreed to work in order to come to the New World.
Who were indentured servants?